1. Focus on increasing the company's per-share value: This is the best metric to measure a CEO's performance.
2. Balance between operations management and capital allocation: These are the two core tasks of a CEO. While operational efficiency is important, the firm's capital allocation strategy makes the real difference over the long-term.
3. Be unconventional: The CEOs profiled in the book outperformed the S&P 500 by twenty times by using unconventional techniques.
A book that received high praise from Warren Buffett, The Outsiders chronicles the unconventional te...
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